Short Reviews: A Series of Unfortunate Events #1-4 by Lemony Snicket

17/08/2013, CelineNyx, Review , 2

I first read this book when I was around 10. I completely loved it. As a child, I adored the darkness about it, because it was different.

Now, years later, I still love it. Maybe it´s just sentimental, but I still really enjoy this cute little book. Also, it looks nice in my bookcase *grin*.

Dear Reader,

I’m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.

It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.

With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket

Read this one when I was little, so a huge part of it I couldn’t remember very clearly any more. I love Snicket’s style, and I feel the explanation of meanings of words is becoming a running joke. Really looking forward to rereading the next part of the series, The Wide Window, which was one of my favourites as a child.

The Wide Window is one of the spookier ones (at least for someone afraid of heights). Grammar is a big part of the story, which I thought was hilarious. I never met anyone obsessed with grammar to be honest. Count Olaf is on this worst in The Wide Window, in a cold-blooded murder kind of way.

In my opinion one of the bleakest books in the series. In The Miserable Mill the orphans are forced to work in a lumber mill, where they don’t even get food except for dinner. I was very relieved once the orphans escaped Olaf’s clutches once again, and they could go somewhere better.

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